{"id":721197,"date":"2026-06-23T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721197\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:08:18","slug":"dallas-wings-look-to-sweep-aces-in-las-vegas-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721197\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings look to sweep Aces in Las Vegas \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TheWings&#8217; young stars have elevated the team, leading them to their best start as a franchise since relocating to Dallas. <\/p>\n<p>The Wings have already reached 11 wins, more than each of the past two seasons, and they&#8217;re on pace for their best season ever. The Wings have never won more than 22 regular-season games in Dallas. They&#8217;re halfway there with 27 games to go in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings are coming off thrilling wins over two struggling teams, the Chicago Sky and Seattle Storm. Paige Bueckers played a stellar game against Seattle: 27 points, a go-ahead basket with 13 seconds remaining in overtime, and 17 of the team&#8217;s final 24 points. <\/p>\n<p>Bueckers also reached 1,000 career WNBA points at the fourth-fastest pace in league history (52 games).<\/p>\n<p>Her former UConn costar-turned-teammate Azzi Fudd put up a season-high 26.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers and Fudd are supported by veterans Arike Ogunbowale and Jessica Shepard, who are both <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.wnba.com\/leaders\/?Season=2026&amp;SeasonType=Regular%20Season\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">top 30 in the league in scoring at 14 points per game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bueckers leads the team and is top 10 in the league at 19 points per game; Fudd is second among rookies at 13 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings&#8217; next home game is Sunday afternoon against the Minnesota Lynx and former TCU star Olivia Miles, who leads all WNBA rookies in scoring. The Wings have the fourth-best record in the league (11-6); the Lynx are first (13-4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TheWings&#8217; young stars have elevated the team, leading them to their best start as a franchise since relocating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2834,2114,99,15857,434],"class_list":["post-721197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-dallas-wings","tag-las-vegas","tag-sports","tag-uconn","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}